It was only back at the end of October 2011 that Canonical's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, outlined his plans to stretch the Ubuntu ecosystem out beyond just computers and onto screens everywhere. We've already seen this in action on mobile phones with...

A few weeks back on Pocket-lint we lined up some of the biggest players in the cloud storage field against one another to see which service was the best. (It was a nice piece and well worth a read when you've got an afternoon to kill).

Nonetheless,...

The world is a big place, and it seems of no coincidence that Canonical’s offices sit 27 floors up in the Millbank Tower with a 360-degree view of it right in the middle of London. Canonical is the parent company of the most popular distribution...

Canonical, the business side to several open source Linux platforms, has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 11.04.

The release, which has the codename Natty Narwhal, brings with it a number of key features, most notably the introduction of the...

Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that Ubuntu versions in the future, starting with 11.04, will be ditching the Gnome desktop environment in favour of the Unity platform that is present on the current netbook version.

The...

Canonical, the business side to several open source Linux platforms, has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 10.10.

The release, which has the codename Maverick Meerkat, brings with it a number of key features, most notably cloud integration and...

Canonical boss Chris Kenyon has stated that a version of Ubuntu specially designed for tablets could be coming our way in early 2011.

Ubuntu is a Linux OS based on the Debian GNU and can currently be found on PCs, netbooks, servers and mobile...

Open-source operating system creator Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed Lucid Lynx, has been let out into the wild, and is available for download.

The announcement follows 2009's release of Jaunty Jackalope and Karmic Koala,...

If there was ever a bit of software in dramatic need of a little bit of sexing up, it'd be Linux. For some time, the open-source OS has had a little bit of an image problem - seen as the operating system of choice for beardy coding types. That image...

Dell is offering a Mini 10v netbook running an "Ubuntu Moblin Remix" for developers.

Moblin, an open source project, created by Intel and the Linux Foundation, is optimised for mobile devices.

It boasts a user interface focused...

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, has launched a project with the intriguing title of "One Hundred Paper Cuts". The plan is to identify and fix 100 small points of interface pain for users.

The company says: "A paper...

Mark Shuttleworth addressed his fans at the Ubuntu Open Week last week, and gave a sneaky peek into what we can expect from Ubuntu in the coming months.

The development of the next OS was the hottest topic.

Jaunty Jackalope will...

Ubuntu version 8.10, or Intrepid Ibex, is now available for download.

Key updates include native support for 3G networks as well as support for an array of inbuilt devices and external dongles.

"Ubuntu 8.10 sees us lay the groundwork...

The latest Ubuntu update, codenamed Hardy Heron, has been available for download since the end of April.

But now specific versions of the operating system have been launched for UMPCs - first up for McCaslin (e.g., the Samsung Q1 Ultra) and...

A Windows-based installer that allows Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same machine and a powerful new sound server are the key features of the latest Ubuntu update.

Codenamed "Hardy Heron", version 8.04 is the second Ubuntu release to...